Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-29
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subject there has always been the gross-
est and most stupid exaegeratiop. l be
lieve it IS commonly accepted as q fact
that Maggie Mitchell is in the reishbur-
hood Of eightY-one. Her husband is
more or less humorously reported to
have said that her popularity is owing 30
the prevailing rsge Cor the antique. And
s paragrsPher ls responsible for the
statement inst the men Of one family IN
The direct line Tor three generations had
celebrated thtir weddings by going TO see
Ean3hOn il the evening. as FaLcaon was
only produced twenty five yecrs agO, iG
1862, this statement IS manifestly absurd
Then Lotto is represented to be, IL the
privacy Of her apartments, a quaint and
fault fi1dirg ola woman, who porzs over
her large sized receipts, ROBBED ecCnOni7
cauy in g cotton gown. In short
tne agzs CT actresses are exaggerated
IL nearly every case, and tGCcituI paItIcu-
lars axe applied in the Wsy CT c0rrOboTa-
i've detail. T. mGy be said il eXtenuatiOa
Cf th9se wbo circulate these stories that
they honestly believe them to be true.
When an actress has been on the stage O
few years she grows old 10 her audiences.
Sac soon becomes associated with the
PAST. The youth CT college who marries
end is blessed with family, forget thai
these mOmentous occurrences er1 crowd
ed in five gears, associates the actress
with his b9yhOOd and describes her as
ancient. The probability is that she is
younger than ne.
Reilly il is !. mistake for actresses 70
make persistent secrets OF their ages and
q few truthful notes GA the subisc. cannot
be taken but as kindness.
In 10 fret ,Nlo
| only fifty. five years Of sge. OF course
she might be grandmother now, but she
is not. She made her first appearance at
the Bowery theatcr under Old Hambln's
management when she W&s about seven
teen. she plsyed a very wide range CT
parts, as al clever players did in those
days, and was accounted good IN them
sll. 5 In 1851, when she YES nineteen, she
appeared at Burton's Chambers Street
theater IS Julia in the Soldiers Daughter
and sls9 displayed Ter shapelv form
! in the picturesque costume OF the French
! Spy. Think OF Maggie Mitchell Ia
| lights! Sae seems to have been ambitious
enough, 20r in 1864, she came forward as
! Constance in the Love Cbsse in Philade!-
! pals. 1t was in 1862 that she leased
, LAURA Keene's theater N New York, af-
terW0rds the old Olympic, snd produced
Faaclon, which has been the delight IS
TWO generations Of theater-goer and
| has raised up 6 swarm Ct lmitatQrs.
How cid is L ,t.S? Well, ste was
norm in Grand street, New York, N0veu-
Der /, 1847. You can calculate for your
self. Sac Isn't forty yet. She mede her
first appearance rs vOCslis5 when She
WAS eigut years Old. When she was eleven
sha YVES cut in California playing Ger
trude il the Loan OF Lover Shs;made
her first hit in New York, when she
was seventeen doing songs and
dances in Ni6lo's saloon, ROW the Metro
politan hotel dining room. Broughsn
saw her, dubbed her the dramatic cock
tail, wrote play called Firefy for her
aud with it opened g summer season at
Wallack's theeter in August, 1868. she
made an immediate success, and she has
been Lolita 10 the American public ever
since, with all that magical name i'm
plies.
Fanny Davenport is cider than Lolita.
Lolita has been called old probably be-
cause the idea of q sprightly grandmother
who kicks in two directions at Que time
is amusing. But Fedora's representative
has passed out Of yourg womanhood so
gradually and SO gracefully that it has not
excited public attention. Miss Dav-
exports first public appesrar &c
this county was effected
February 23, 1857, st the American TDea-
ire, New YORK. That is something more
than thirty years ego. She WIS child
stIthis time, probably twelve years old and
her appearance Wss made as vocalist.
. Under the name OF Miss Fanny, she sang
q part in the Star Spangled Banner. Miss
Davenport was born il London and came
to this country with her father, the tel
ented 4. L. Davenport in 1854. She was
st least twelve when she sang on this &C.
caseioD, because five years later, in 1862,
! she played Charles to the Roy Gomez of
her father in Plsnches, Dainty TTifp,
Faint Heart Never Won a Fair Lacy
In 1869, she Joined Mr.. Days Company
and was with him until she STATED out
on her own account.
Rose Eytinge, who is rcw e member oil
Mr.. Days company, Is probablY-aftel
: Maggie Mitchell, the Oldest sctress or
the stage who preserves the appearance
and ettractiveness Of youth. She was
born in Philadelphia, September, 1855,
r and made her first successes as an ans
teur actress in Brooklyn in 1852. Enter
. ing the profession, she played in the lead
VI VIC SOuutiy1 duu III lCOC
; became the leading lady at Wallack':
theater. Subsequently she wss identified
l with the success OF Led Astrsy, at the
Union Square, under Mr.. Palmer's man
, Rgement. For several years she starred
5 on the road, and has now settled down
: TITO stock company once more.
Rose Coghlsn Wss born in p Peterborough
4 England, in March, 1851, and is now thir
t ty-six. She started on the siege playins
X. bows parts. She came to America II
2 1871 to play the Woman in White
l The management collapsed and the tail
g Coghlan went into Lydia Thompson
5 burlesque company. She played in Wal
G lacks theeter in 1872, and then went t
F., England, returning as Wallack's leading
3 lady in 1877. Ada Rehsn says that sht
/ arrived in this world in 1859, SO that ST,
t is now twentyeight years old
S The exact date is said to be Apri
I %. Mrs. Rehan has two sisters, Mrs
D Oliver Doud Byron and Miss Haiti,
| Russell, or, in private life, Mrs. Russell
2 who was in the Florence Company mum
/ Der OF years. The statement is common.
t ly accepted that Mary Anderson was bor1
e in Sacramento, Cal, July %, 1859, anC
! that she is therefore just about of an agC
1 with Ada Rehan. 1t is nearly ten year:
r since Miss Anderson made her debut il
Nau Vork Eeleno D,rvrov f,e+ G. Wy Oh,